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European Studies and the European Crisis: Legal and Political Science between Critique and Complacency

  • European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises that struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration unfolds. The quasi-authoritarian emergency politics deployed in the euro crisis is a radical expression of the fading prevalence of democratic processes to accommodate economic and social diversity in the Union. As we argue in this paper, however, the mainstreams in both disciplines retain a largely affirmative and apologetic stance on the EU's post-democratic and extra-constitutional development. While political science contributions mostly content themselves with a revival of conventional integration theories and thus turn a blind eye to normatively critical aspects of European crisis governance, legal scholarship is in short supply of normatively convincing theoretical paradigms and thus aligns itself with the functionalist reasoning of the EU's Court of Justice. Yet, we also identify critical peripheries in both disciplines which intersect in their critical appraisal of the authoritarian tendencies that inhere in the crisis-ridden state of European integration. Their results curb the prevailing optimism and underline that the need for fundamental reorientations in both the theory and practice of European integration has become irrefutable.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Christian Joerges, Christian Kreuder-Sonnen
Parent Title (English):European Law Journal
Publication year:2017
First Page:118
Last Page:139
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12225
Release Date:2018/02/22
Volume:23
Issue:1-2
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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